# Palin says she has "Fire In the Belly." Is it just gas? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [May 20, 2011, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614 "2011-05-20T20:07:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/61 "2011-05-27T14:37:37Z")
Well, I guess she’s getting all mavericky and doing things her own way- you know, “shakin’ things up”! I’m sure she thinks she is bypassing the establishment and taking her case directly to the ‘real Americans’ that are her base. It will be interesting to see how a Presidential campaign consisting of a movie and a road trip in a bus will pan out. I think it will look a lot like the “Atlas Shrugged” movie. I find her “folksy charm” repulsive, but it sure rings a bell for lots of people. I don’t think she can find enough of those people to get her a job in the White House, though. The more she talks, the more normal people dislike her. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/62 "2011-05-27T14:52:25Z")
Oh man, I can see it now - PALIN - BACHMANN 2012. I know I have Pawlenty - Bachmann in my custom thingy but I’m open for CHANGE !! Speaking of Pawlenty; where has he gone? Passed by Herb Cain? What’s next, dropping below Freddy Krueger, the gay candidate? (yes, I know the spelling is different but I can’t pass it up) ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/63 "2011-05-27T14:53:46Z")
> [@Ca3799](#): > > It will be interesting to see how a Presidential campaign consisting of a movie and a road trip in a bus will pan out. I think it will look a lot like the “Atlas Shrugged” movie. But will it have the part where Jesus and Ronald Reagan come down from Heaven and annoint her as the Chosen One? -Joe ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/64 "2011-05-27T15:40:19Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > Palin is the best candidate the Republicans could offer. She is bright, heavily experienced and shows great diplomacy. She is dignified . When she quit as Governor ,it was not her fault. The press was not nice to her. Palin would be great at running the economy. She has a deep understanding of it and would be just peachy. She’s as bright as a 25 watt bulb. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/65 "2011-05-27T15:47:11Z")
> [@appleciders](#): > > If Palin enters, it’ll be damn hard for anyone but her and Romney to get any media attention. If that’s the case, I strongly predict that either she or Romney will end up the nominee. Romney will have to campaign pretty far to the right to get the nomination, which is probably bad for everybody. If Newt keeps throwing out bombs like “right wing social engineering”, and recantations a few days later, he’ll get plenty of media attention. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/66 "2011-05-27T15:48:11Z")
> [@Frostillicus](#): > > She’s as bright as a 25 watt bulb. Yes, but a _really_ bright 25 watt bulb. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/67 "2011-05-27T15:54:44Z")
> [@Knorf](#): > > I’m working on parsing what “interesting” means to **gonzomax**. Reall?. He warned about NAFTA. he talked about the whooshing sound of jobs being sucked out of America. He was prophetic about what the corporations had in mind. I suppose he was running before your time , so you don’t know better, but he warned us about the economic problems that followed. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/68 "2011-05-27T16:06:49Z")
Politics can create monsters. Palin was half way there with her “pretty girl” entitlements. But she has handlers that butter her up every day , telling her how important even her tweets are. Every place she goes she has an audience that paid to see her perform. She swims in a sea of right wingers. She is shocked when people criticize her , and since they are not like the people she deals with every day, she believes they are outliers. Somehow she thinks quitting was completely justified and all have forgotten it by now. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/69 "2011-05-27T16:13:35Z")
Perot in 1992, was for balancing the budget. He was protectionist to some degree about the economy and urged fairness through tariffs. He was pro choice. He was a fan of the EPA. Sure he had ideas. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/70 "2011-05-27T16:32:07Z")
My memory is that he babbled a lot and lived and spoke nothing but clumsy clichés, particularly in the debates, but in speeches also. “If yer car’s not runnin’, why, you’ve gotta LOOK. UNDER. THE HOOD!” (wild applause.) I’ll take your word for it that there was something there, but it was buried under a lot of nonsense. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/71 "2011-05-27T16:36:36Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > Perot in 1992, was for balancing the budget. He was protectionist to some degree about the economy and urged fairness through tariffs. He was pro choice. He was a fan of the EPA. > Sure he had ideas. He also claimed that Bush was going to ruin his daughter’s wedding. I’m voting batshit. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/72 "2011-05-27T17:07:16Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > He also claimed that Bush was going to ruin his daughter’s wedding. I’m voting batshit. ``` So. I did not claim he should be deified, But he actually presented charts and attempted to educate people about the economic costs of both Dem and Repub policies. But if you choose to totally ignore what his warnings were because of a stupid wedding comment. you can. ``` ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/73 "2011-05-27T18:09:08Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Yes, but a _really_ bright 25 watt bulb. My blue canary night light is brighter than she is. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/74 "2011-05-27T18:23:50Z")
I’m sure your canary is, but even the bulb? ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/75 "2011-05-27T18:33:57Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > My blue canary night light is brighter than she is. The one in the outlet by the light switch? > [@gonzomax](#): > > So. I did not claim he should be deified, But he actually presented charts and attempted to educate people about the economic costs of both Dem and Repub policies. But if you choose to totally ignore what his warnings were because of a stupid wedding comment. you can. Oh - he was a smart man, no doubt. You don’t become a self-made billionaire by being dumb. He was just crazy, too. ---
**Author:** ![SaharaTea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SaharaTea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaharaTea)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/76 "2011-05-27T18:53:22Z")
I don’t think she’s running. She couldn’t even handle being governor of Alaska, for chrissake. There’s no way she has the stomach for a demanding presidential campaign and the accompanying media scrutiny. This bus tour is nothing more than a lame attempt to stay relevant. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/77 "2011-05-27T19:00:48Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > The one in the outlet by the light switch? > Oh - he was a smart man, no doubt. You don’t become a self-made billionaire by being dumb. He was just crazy, too. [Presidential Candidate H. Ross Perot - The Dark Side](http://www.realchange.org/perot.htm) Of course you can. He did data processing for the government and was ruthless enough to buy pols and get rich off it. His wealth came from Medicare and Medicaid contracts. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Peyote_Coyote)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/78 "2011-05-27T19:15:12Z")
SaharaTea: I thought of that when I made that post yesterday. However, she has all these adoring Republicans telling her they want her to run for president. All that mindless adoration may have convinced her she does have the stomach for the job. She hired that filmmaker to produce “The Undefeated.” Politicians have egos as big as those of opera divas, if not larger, and she may have convinced herself that she be president. As for media scrutiny. I suspect that in Palin’s world every media outlet but Fox is the “lamestream media” that is “wee-wee’d off”\* because they can’t deal with a hockey mom. Frankly, if I were a Republican there’s no way in hell I would want her running. You might as well as cede the 2012 election to Mr. Obama. - The last time I was in Arizona I read an artical where she actually used that phrase. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/79 "2011-05-27T19:41:07Z")
As per usual, I logged my 10 minutes of Rush outrage while tooling around at lunch-time, and he told his faithful followers that he is sure of the fact that the White House is most afraid of Palin being the nominee. Because – his reasoning – they \*know \*they can beat a liberal Republican; they \*know \*they can beat a moderate Republican; they \*know \*they can beat a Republican pretending to be a Republican (the endangered white RINO); but they also know that they \*can’t \*beat a conservative Republican – of who Palin is the shining star. I disagree. ---
**Author:** ![Profound\_Gibberish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@Profound\_Gibberish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Profound_Gibberish)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614/80 "2011-05-27T19:45:33Z")
So why isn’t Rush running? He has such great ideas on how to run this country and his talents are going to waste 😜 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-says-she-has-fire-in-the-belly-is-it-just-gas/582614.md?page=5)